Re: Dasher accessibility integration

[Peter Korn <peter korn sun com>]

Hi Matthew,

> I've spent yesterday and last night hacking some of the toolkit
> accessibilty integration that I'd mentioned earlier into Dasher. The
> code's not compilable except by hand at the moment, so I won't be
> releasing it just yet, but I've stuck a screenshot at
> http://www.codon.org.uk/~mjg59/dashercontrol.jpg . I've zoomed into the
> control node, selected gnome-panel and then dived down into the
> applications menu. Instead of that, I could have headed for an
> application and selected menu items from there. Currently I only look
> for menu items - toolbars would be a trivial addition. At the moment
> there's a lot of redundant stuff (a frame surrounding a menu results in
> an extra layer of boxes to dive through), but I'll look into stripping
> that out.

Very cool!  I'm eager to try this out, and also to hear what users think of
it.  What are your plans beyond menu and toolbars?  Any thoughts about text
editing functions (the GOK folks are polishing their work on that now).

Thanks,


Peter Korn
Sun Accessibility team